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...bill proposed by Senator Edward Kennedy last year to ban the sale, import and manufacture of small handguns is considered dead. Indications are that Congress may even loosen the already weak restrictions on guns. The 1.8 million-member N.R.A., with an annual budget of $30 million, forms the nation's most powerful single-interest group. One pro-N.R.A. bill, sponsored by Senator James Mc-Clure of Idaho and originally called the gun-decontrol bill, already has 61 sponsors in the Senate. It would loosen interstate trade in firearms and allow their possession by some categories of felons...
Should the U.S. attempt to rescue its auto industry by restricting the import of Japanese-made cars? That was the knotty question that faced President Reagan last week. The Governors of eight auto-producing states, led by William Milliken of Michigan, met with the President in the White House to ask for negotiations toward a "voluntary" Japanese reduction of auto imports. Meanwhile, the Reagan Cabinet, at a meeting last week, split into sharply divided groups over the issue of import controls...
...said last week that he still supported unrestricted trade, but added, "Sometimes you have to take a step or two backward before you can move forward." Murray Weidenbaum, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, had another view about that step. He told the Senate Banking Committee that any import limitations would be a "backward step at a time when economic policy is being geared to reducing the degree of Government intervention in the marketplace." Reagan Cabinet members now favoring relief for Detroit are: Brock, Lewis, Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldridge and Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan. The free traders lined...
...studio announcer, who read the remaining 3½ hours of Brezhnev's text. The unsettling cut appeared to be an attempt to draw attention away from the Soviet leader's infirmities, but it had the opposite effect. For a time, in fact, it obscured the main import of his speech. A quarter of the way through his address, Brezhnev extended an olive branch of sorts to the West, offering to revive the moribund SALT process and even proposing a summit meeting with President Ronald Reagan...
...automakers and the U.A.W. join the compact, the Administration says, it will try to negotiate restrictions with the Japanese, who last year brought in 1.9 million vehicles and garnered a record 21% of U.S. auto sales. The Administration is suggesting that it will get the Japanese to accept an import limit of about 1.7 million cars annually-if Detroit falls in line quickly. Reagan wants to have the industry concessions in hand and an agreement negotiated with Japan before May, when Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki is scheduled to visit Washington...